Oh, Dear Donna! My family has been trying to connect our James Lewis Beatty to a Lewis family for about 150 years! Since my lineage #39 is about to merge with lineage #134, you might suggest that Catherine Aber Lewis get in touch with Sue Knost, Julie Miller, or me. Sue and Julie and I have been burning up the E-waves in our attempt to get to know each other's families and to examine our own selves as to when we first knew a certain fact and what was our source! Yes, I kept this story and it jumped right out at me! I know, now, that it wasn't our James Lewis Beatty IV who was the oldest of seven sons, five having died in the Battle at Chattanooga, but I am thinking that maybe the Story or "Legend" was about their fathers, instead. It seems that that generation was in the Civil War, also, and many of the sons substituted for their brothers, their fathers, and their uncles, unless of course, the military just got terribly confused about all of the Beatty/Beaty/Batty/Batey/Baty/Betty men named: James, John, Robert, William, Samuel, Henry, Hiram, Lewis, Clinton, Perry, George, Edward Benjamin, Edwin, Jesse James, Oren, Orren, Orrin, and Hugh! In our family, we might have to stop calling our James, "James IV," or maybe we will one more James. The one thing that I have learned, recently, is that the given names and surnames of Lewis and Clinton did not start in this country, and they might not have started in the Beatty family. The oldest daughter of my James Lewis Beatty was married to a Clements, and the surname Lewis and the surname Clinton and the surname Martin go way back to the Scots-Irish in the Clements family, too! They began centuries ago in the Scots-Irish world! Lewis was Lewys and Clinton was probably Clynton at one time, whether they are English names or Scotch names, or Irish names. Our problem is that the long-lost father of my James Lewis Beatty--recorded as Beaty in his military files and his marriage record and born 02 May 1782, Massillon, Perry Twp., Stark Co., OH--was only one of four sons, unless we are going to find more brothers. James, Sr. 1. Hugh: Nothing known about him yet. 2. James, Jr.: was married twice and had 15-18 children; died 1849 James III (My James IV, but we will have to start referring to him as James III, unless we find another James as father of James, Sr. 3. John 4. Robert I do not feel qualified yet to give more facts and sources on our combined lineage, but Sue, Julie, and I are working on it stating our sources, concisely. I am hot-on-the-trail of a birth record for my James Lewis Beatty, so that I can prove, once and for all, how anyone got a middle name for him, because all records I am finding, now, have just his middle initial "L." Also, if we have a day, month, and year for his birth, then, someone got the exact date from some official source, and the same goes for his wife, Ann or Anna Maria Wilcox or Willcox. From one of your "Cousins in Cahoots," Lois (Griffes) Kortering, L-39, about to merge with L-134 Muskegon, Michigan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna VanZandt" <donavan@netins.net> To: <BP2000-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:48 AM Subject: [BP2000] James Beatty of PA > A new BP2000 member. Does this James Beatty of Rev. War (Cumberland co., > PA) sound familiar to anyone? Father killed by the Indians and he was a > captive for 3 years. Donna L-3 > ----------------------------------------- > In all the research you've done, have you come across where this James > Beatty was born or anything about his parentage? I suspect either Ireland > or Scotland. His father was apparently here in America also because there > is an excerpt in the "History of Allegheny County" stating that James was > held prisoner for three years by Indians who had murdered his father. This > information was provided by his granddaughter, Catherine Aber Lewis. > > Janet > > > > > > ==== BP2000 Mailing List ==== > **************************************** > BEATTY CENSUS PROJECT > BP2000 members are currently extracting > Beatty data from U.S. Census Records. We > need volunteers for research as well as > for recording the information in our > database. Write Ray Beatty <RCBDJR@AOL.COM> > if you can help. > >